Clinical Dental Hygiene I

Catalog description

This course provides the student with the practical information they need to provide dental hygiene services for a wide variety of patients in the school's dental hygiene clinic. It includes instruction concerning everything from simple clinical cases to those patients requiring specialized care, i.e. geriatric, pediatric, adolescent, menopausal and the pregnant patients. Planning of the dental hygiene appointment is emphasized. An introduction to local anesthesia is provided in preparation for the student's first experience in local anesthesia administration in the summer term.